Sylvia Fine Kaye

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - DEATHS

October 29, 1991

Kaye, who wrote some of the funniest and most famous material performed by her husband, Danny Kaye, died Monday in New York at age 78. Her publicist said she had long suffered from emphysema. She wrote the words and music of such Danny Kaye movies as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Inspector General and The Court Jester. She also was a film and television producer. Danny Kaye died in 1987.